The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature, volume 1 (of 2)Putnam, George Haven
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The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature, volume 1 (of 2)
Putnam, George Haven
Freedom of the press; Liberty of conscience; Prohibited books
“It is well known to all that, since 1550, avowed heretics and others
whose catholicity is not to be trusted, have brought secretly into the
land pernicious and dangerous books, through the influence of which
the heretics are confirmed in their errors and the faithful are led
astray. It is the purpose of the present work to secure the destruction
of the existing copies of this baneful literature and to protect
the land against the introduction of further similar books. _Le
Catalogue des livres reprouvéz et des livres que l’on pourra lire aux
enfans és escholles particulières, selon le jugement de l’université de
Louvain. Imprimé par ordonnance de la Majesté Royale. Á Louvain. Par
Martin Verhassett. Imprimeur juré. L’an de grace MDLVIII. Avec Grace et
Privilège du Roy._
(Then follows a second title-page in Flemish.)
The lists contain, with some corrections, the titles printed in 1550.
The additions (distributed alphabetically) comprise about one hundred
titles. The bibliography is much more correct, in the matter of names,
book-titles, freedom from duplicate entries, and consistency of
arrangement, than that of the Italian lists of the same period. Among
the new names in Class I (authors all of whose works are condemned) are
those of Jo. Athanisius Veluanus, Jo. Sleidanus, and Memno Symonis. The
first should read: Jo. Anastasius (Jan Geeraerds ter Stege), Veluanus
(Pastor in Veluve). There are twelve additional titles in the list of
anonymous works.
The material of this Louvain Index was undoubtedly utilised by the
compilers of the Index of Paul IV, but they managed to bring into their
transcripts a number of errors that did not find place in the original.
_14._ _1559._ _Valladolid._ _Valdes._--_Catalogus Librorum qui
prohibentur mandato Illustrissimi et Reverend. D. D. Ferdinand de
Valdes, Hispalen., Archiepi., Inquisitoris Generalis Hispaniae. Nec
non et Supremi Sanctae ac Generalis Inquisitionis Senatus. Hoc Anno
MDLIX editus. Quorum jussu et licentia Sebastianus Martinez, Excudebat
Pinciae._ The industrious Inquisitor-General had already, as we have
seen, brought into print two Indexes; for the first of these he had
utilised the lists of the Louvain compilers, while the titles in the
second were restricted to editions of the Scriptures.
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